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Date:      Sat, 07 Jun 1997 12:11:22 -0400
From:      dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Bob Willcox <bob@luke.pmr.com>, hackers mailing list <freebsd-hackers@freefall.FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: Does SMC9332BDT work in 2.2.2R??
Message-ID:  <3.0.32.19970607121118.00bbfb84@etinc.com>

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At 10:46 AM 6/7/97 -0500, Bob Willcox wrote:
>I am trying to install some SMC9332BDT ethernet cards in some of
>my systems here with no success.  Upon booting the system with the
>card installed, initially the lights on the card come on (and flash)
>and the light on the hub lights.  Once the card is detected during
>the boot probe all lights go off (no unusual messages are displayed,
>everything looks ok in the messages, see below) and as the boot-up
>progresses its obvious the network is not up (all network related
>daemons hang) and I never get to a login prompt (at least not within
>the 5-10 minutes I've waited).
>
>Does anybody have any suggestions/help?  It looks like (from the
>cvs log for if_de.c) that the driver in 2.2.2R should support this
>card (using the 21140A chip) but I am not having much luck.

You'll probably need the patches....they were available (with if_media) before
2.2.2 was release...only heaven knows why they *still* weren't in there. They
work quite nicely.

I'm not sure where they live though....


Denis
>
>Boot messages for de0 are:
>
>Jun  7 09:47:16 luke /kernel: de0 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32
int a irq 9 on pci0:9
>Jun  7 09:47:16 luke /kernel: de0: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
>Jun  7 09:47:16 luke /kernel: de0: address 00:e0:29:00:ec:81
>Jun  7 09:47:16 luke /kernel: de0: enabling 100baseTX port
>
>
>Thanks,
>-- 
>Bob Willcox	       Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made
>bob@luke.pmr.com       President should on no account be allowed to do the
job.
>Austin, TX              -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the
Galaxy"
>
>



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